Portfolio Risk and Return - Part I (2024/2025 Level I CFA® Exam – PM – Module 1)
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Topic 3 – Portfolio Management
Module 1 – Portfolio Risk and Return – Part I
LOS : Describe characteristics of the major asset classes that investors consider in forming portfolios.
LOS : Explain risk aversion and its implications for portfolio selection.
LOS : Explain the selection of an optimal portfolio, given an investor’s utility (or risk aversion) and the capital allocation line.
LOS : Calculate and interpret the mean, variance, and covariance (or correlation) of asset returns based on historical data.
LOS : Calculate and interpret portfolio standard deviation.
LOS : Describe the effect on a portfolio’s risk of investing in assets that are less than perfectly correlated.
LOS : Describe and interpret the minimum-variance and efficient frontiers of risky assets and the global minimum-variance portfolio.
